Autovehicle-locking means.



D. L. BRUNDAGE G. SCHERZ.

AUTOVEHICLE LOCKING MEANS. APPLICATION men JAN. 11. 1911.

Ainvented a new i DUN 31|. BRUNDAGE AND GEORGE SCHERZ, OF GLADSTONE, MINNESOTA.

AUTOVEHICLE-LOCKING MEANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr.. 2, 19in.

Application filed January 11, 1917. Serial No. 141,795.

States, residing at Gladstone, in the county of Ramsey and State of ltlinnesota, have and useful utovehicle- Locking Means. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for lockingbralre levers and starting levers ot' nia* chinos, and its main objectV is to enable operators of automobiles, auto trucks, tractors, different cars and niotor boats to lock the machinery in idle position and thereby pre plan View ot' the plate 10 in Figs. 1 andvQ.'

Fig. 4 is an enlargement of Fig. Q. with our lookin device applied thereto. Fig. is a side e evation of Fig. 11 with the padlock omitted.

Referring to the drawing hy reference numerals, 1 designates the body of an automobile or other auto vehicle having a seat 2 for the operator to sit on and handle a brake' lever 3 and in sonic cases also a speed changing and reversing lever 1. Tl'ic'connections of one or both or' said levers with the parts they control, and 't ieir use on an automobile are so'well known that no description need here be given of same but only et the locking et said levers.

ln Figs. 1 and 9. is best shown how, a rule, the door 5 of the car is provided with an aperture 5 Jfor the levers 3, l to project up through and he swung haelt and Jforth therein. The lever 3 is usually guided in a slott in a plate 7 secured upon the floor; said plate `having also'a much wider slot 8 for the lever 4, so as to allow said lever to occupy diii'ercnt positions in the aperture in the floor, oi in a plate 10 secured belowl 'the floor and having an ti-shznied aperture The lever 3 controls the regular brakes of the driving ground wheels of the car, and the lever 4i may also in some cars loe used for braking, lout its main function is to so con# trol certain clutches and gears that when the lever is at point 11 in Fig. 3 the engine or motor can not startthe car at all; and when at points 19. or 13 the car will move forward at slow or fast speed,`and il at points lei or 15 the car will move rearwardly at slow or fast speed. lVhenever the lever is thns in a certain position, whether the H-shaped-slot iS used or not, the car can not be started if the lever be locked either in idle position at 11 or in a position indicating hlgh speed; hence we render the car uxnnovable by securing said lever el. in one of said positions, usnally`in the central position shown in Fig. 2; and we doso, in Figs. 4: and 5, by removing the plate 7, in Figs. 1`and 2, and substituting a. plate 16, having similar slots, 6 and 8, and one or two arches or lixedverti cal wings 17 with perforations 18.

Pivoted at 19 upon said plate is an arm, 20, having two rigid fingers 21, between which the lever is held against lat-eral mo tion as long as it is so engaged, but said arm may also be swung to the dotted position in Fig. 1 and thus set the lever 4 free when it is to be used. Upon the flat arm is pivoted at 22, an angle piece 23, to whose upward arm is pivoted at 21, a segment or small vertical wing 25, having apertures 18 registering with the apertures 18 in the l'ixed vertical wing 17 when the fingers 21 engage the lever. Hence to lock the arm 20 in said position it is only necessary to apply a pad` lock 26 with its hail 27 inserted in one or the apertures 18 and one 1.8, as in Fig. L1. In said view isv also shown that the bail ma pass through lonly one of the fixedl Wings 1i and hence the other arch or wing 17 may he dispensed with if so desired, lout if the two arches are there the bail may pass through both of them; and whether one or both arches 17 are used the bail of the saine lock may embrace also the hralre lever 3 and thus lock the brake in set position, and if the machine has not got the lever fl the locking means for saine inay he omitted and only the brake lever 3 locked. ln the operation of the deviceit will he understood ironia. loolgat Fig. Il that a singie padlock may lock either or both ot the levers 3 and Il, the lever 3 by directly e1nbracing it in the hail of the lock, and the lever l indirectly by locking together the large vertical wing 17 and the small vertical Bti Wing 25, whereby the Wing 25 willl hold the varm 20 with its fingers 2l straddling the lever 4.

-oted upon the plate and having two fingers arranged -to straddle the lever when it is in neutral position, a Second perforated Vertical Wing pivoted on said arm and adapted to be brought face to face with one side of the fixed vertical'wing, a padlock having its bail inserted in the perforations of the tWo vertical Wings so as to lock the arm with its lingers straddling the lever.

In testimony whereof We aHiX our signatures.

DON L. BRUNDAGE. GEORGE SCHERZ. 

